This is the N-time Im hearing the questions .
A stupid guy from a wretched state(one of the worst states in social indices, high in naxalite activity) asked me whether we worship ravanna and do not celebrate deepavali. The next question is how come people are so comfortable with lungis down south. The next question is why people look so dark (even the heroes).
Well My answers
1 -- No. But there is one caste who worship shiva and basically like ravanna(im not sure whether the practice still exists.)
2 -- Its not alone down south. Even villages in north wear lungis...
3 -- Because thats our color and it doesnt matter whether someone is dark or fair. Btw we are so broadminded in accepting someone who is dark,fat as our heroes. Its just that looks dont matter down south. Infact i feel ashamed for the other way around. We dont accept dark heroines :(... we need fair skinned (i call them anemic), dumb looking females who cant emote.
All the guys whom I interacted are unanimous in their opinion that they need surnames to identify caste(family heritage blah blah). I was shocked to hear this nonsense.
Im proud that i come from a place where one cant identify a caste from someone's name.
Came across a proff(not me but my batchmates here) who tore apart Tamilnadu for starting reservations in 1967. He was particularly critical about Annadurai. He was particulary critical about us being something different from the rest of country(implicity saying about secessionism ??? ).
The answer lies in Indian express survery in 1988-89. The question asked was "Do you support IPKF in srilanka". Tamilnadu gave support to IPKF and the numbers were above national average(Inspite of IPKF fighting against own ethnic community). We have always voted for integration when the nation has been in distress(1984- indira gandhi death , 1991- rajiv gandhi death, congress swept the state in lok sabha elections).
Well its not proper on his part to speak something crap about a state. Leaving aside that the only question which I would love to ask him is : "sir, so do u think orissa which implemeted reservations(im not sure about whether it implemented at all) after a long time is better than tamilnadu in all paramaters ??? "....
The last question for the day : Y dont u speak hindi ? Its our national language.
What I would love to say is : Y dont u conduct team meetings in English. Its an international language
What I said is : well Im learning Hindi :)
p.s. Im affected by reservations :(...but take it with a heart. Simple fundamental truth: Only if everyone comes up, there will be a market for anything and everything.....:)
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one more question which i forgot to add:
"y do south indian gods have two or more wives".
my answer : " well Y did draupati have five husbands and Y did krishna flirt(too mild word ) with many women"....
Looks that you are really frustrated..!! Completely freaked out by them...!!
What I would say is learn to ignore these idiotic stuff they pose in front of you. Your time is much more valuable and cant spend on these stupid questions. Well, smashing them with beautiful answers is really exciting and pleasurable. But it's not worth doing it..
I wish you were with that professor when he professed. Also I were there to see you arguing...
A small percentage of the whole is spoiling the whole lot. Most of the ppl are good. Atleast that is my experience. (Or I am bad at pointing bad things)
Relax man, It might sound like a PJ.. Still... "East or West, SOUTH is the best" :)
Sands.
PS: I have a friend who told "We north-indians feel everything is there when the girl is fair but nothing *useful* will be there. You south-indians look the shape and size so you get a girl with all *useful* things" ;)
No offence to girls. Just sharing a joke.
Seems like you are getting "good experiences" from "real world".
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